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Oppression Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,358,241 ratings — published 1985
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,310 ratings — published 1968
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,307,529 ratings — published 1949
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.29 — 323,681 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,343,887 ratings — published 1956
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 995,119 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,385 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,701,896 ratings — published 2007
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,064,386 ratings — published 2009
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,245 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,700,079 ratings — published 2008
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,848 ratings — published 2010
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.24 — 339,300 ratings — published 2015
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,531 ratings — published 2008
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,758,560 ratings — published 1953
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.03 — 39,140 ratings — published 1993
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,990 ratings — published 2015
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 392,531 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,827,787 ratings — published 2005
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,753,168 ratings — published 1960
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,640,401 ratings — published 2010
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.62 — 811,596 ratings — published 2010
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.97 — 481,643 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,422,482 ratings — published 1945
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.66 — 139,270 ratings — published 2003
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,821 ratings — published 1940
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,517 ratings — published 2009
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.27 — 696,801 ratings — published 2014
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.23 — 123,847 ratings — published 1853
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.40 — 201,822 ratings — published 2007
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,401 ratings — published 1965
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.07 — 344,974 ratings — published 1892
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,114,037 ratings — published 1947
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.52 — 872,566 ratings — published 2025
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.34 — 161,174 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,715 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,919 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.29 — 190,939 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,981,661 ratings — published 2009
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.16 — 615,879 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,273 ratings — published 1979
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.17 — 81,446 ratings — published 2001
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,311 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,433,614 ratings — published 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,409 ratings — published 1969
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.36 — 53,103 ratings — published 2000
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 3.44 — 907,098 ratings — published 1850
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.28 — 742,835 ratings — published 1982
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.19 — 612,466 ratings — published 1989
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oppression)
avg rating 4.06 — 437,990 ratings — published 2016
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Freedom from Fear
― Freedom from Fear
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
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